Saturday 5th June 2010
Trearddur Bay
At dusk last night the weather was promising to be another cracker for Saturday, red sky and all that.
The guy in the next tent had travelled from Porth Talbot on the train to Crewe 2 days prior, and road his bike up to Llanberis via Snowdon, camped over night. Walked up Snowdon that evening, then pedalled all the way to Holyhead the next morning. Saturday was to be his rest day whilst he sunbathed in the morning, and watched the rugby in the afternoon.
I left the campsite, and went down to Porth Dafarch again, launching at midday and mid flood tide I went East today, and soon discovered how windy it was acroos the mouth of the bay.
It was a busy day here today, two dive rib's out on the water, a group of coasteers and at least two groups of sea kayakers leaving the same beach as me.
Looking towards Trearddur Bay I could hear the faint hum of.....
You guessed it! Jet ski's and speedboats.
This lone cormorant seemed to be gaurding the rock island he was stood on.
This house as you aproach Trearddur was reportedly derilict last year, and still lokks the same to me, but there are signs of people living in the adjoining land in a caravan, and maybe some building materials. It'll make someone an amazing place sometime.
The beach looked quite crowded, but I was getting a bit desperate for the toilet now, I'd been drinking coffee all morning. So I thought I'd land, nip to the loo's and have lunch back on the beach.
This corner of the beach is where they launch all the noisey powered craft, there seemed to be a constant stream of 4x4's and tractors dropping them off.
The beach here is nice and I'm definately going to bring the family here one weekend.
The only trouble was, after pulling the kayak up the beach, and getting all my valuables together I went to find the toilets - there arn't any!
I ate my lunch, and had to get back in to make a hasty retreat, and find an emty inlet somewhere for a pee.
As I got back in the kayak to paddle on, I realised that the mist from this morning had re-appeared. Looking West where I had left this morning, it looked real thick so I made the decision to head back where I had come from.
The cormorant had found a freind, but as is common to these speccies he was drying out his wings.
Not knowing this coastline very well, I was finding it difficult to locate my exact position. On my last visit to South West Wales my Gps stopped working, and I got sand in the lens on the camera, both of which have never worked since.
The coastline seemed to littered with coasteers and walkers.
Arriving back at Porth Dafrach, I was pleased to have dodged all the speed boats and still be alive.
A very short trip and dissapointing with the fog, was glad to get back to the beach they definately do have toilets!
1 comment:
Glad you managed a couple of paddles during the week, it made a change to have a whole week of settled weather for a change. I will have to get up to Anglesey soon though it looks a bit busier than Pembrokeshire. I keep a small BDH container in my cockpit for those unforeseen toilet breaks. Hope to see you in July/August.
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